Author: Cynthia Cumfer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469606593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Exploring the mental worlds of the major groups interacting in a borderland setting, Cynthia Cumfer offers a broad, multiracial intellectual and cultural history of the Tennessee frontier in the Revolutionary and early national periods, leading up to the era of rapid westward expansion and Cherokee removal. Attentive to the complexities of race, gender, class, and spirituality, Cumfer offers a rare glimpse into the cultural logic of Native American, African American, and Euro-American men and women as contact with one another powerfully transformed their ideas about themselves and the territory they came to share. The Tennessee frontier shaped both Cherokee and white assumptions about diplomacy and nationhood. After contact, both groups moved away from local and personal notions about polity to embrace nationhood. Excluded from the nationalization process, slaves revived and modified African and American premises about patronage and community, while free blacks fashioned an African American doctrine of freedom that was both communal and individual. Paying particular attention to the influence of older European concepts of civilization, Cumfer shows how Tennesseans, along with other Americans and Europeans, modified European assumptions to contribute to a discourse about civilization, one both dynamic and destructive, which has profoundly shaped world history.
Author: Harriette Simpson Arnow
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1609173678
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Harriette Arnow’s roots ran deep into the Cumberland River country of Kentucky and Tennessee, and out of her closeness to that land and its people comes this remarkable history. The first of two companion volumes, Seedtime on the Cumberland captures the triumphs and tragedies of everyday life on the frontier, a place where the land both promised and demanded much. In the years between 1780 and 1803, this part of the country presented tremendous opportunity to those who endeavored to make a new life there. Drawing on an extensive body of primary sources—including family journals, court records, and personal inventories—Arnow paints a stirring portrait of these intrepid people. Like the midden at some ancient archaeological site, these accumulated items become a treasure awaiting the insight and organization of an interpreter. Arnow also draws on a medium she believed in unerringly—oral history, the rich tradition that shaped so much of her own family and regional experience. A classic study of the Old Southwest, Seedtime on the Cumberland documents with stirring perceptiveness the opening of the Appalachian frontier, the intersection of settlers and Native Americans, and the harsh conditions of life in the borderlands.
Author: Harriette Simpson Arnow
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1609173716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Harriette Arnow’s search for truth as early American settlers knew it began as a child—the old songs, handed-down stories, and proverbs that colored her world compelled her on a journey that informs her depiction of the Cumberland River Valley in Kentucky and Tennessee. Arnow drew from court records, wills, inventories, early newspapers, and unpublished manuscripts to write Seedtime on the Cumberland, which chronicles the movement of settlers away from the coast, as well as their continual refinement of the “art of pioneering.” A companion piece, this evocative history covers the same era, 1780–1803, from the first settlement in what was known as “Middle Tennessee” to the Louisiana Purchase. When Middle Tennessee was the American frontier, the men and women who settled there struggled for survival, land, and human dignity. The society they built in their new home reflected these accomplishments, vulnerabilities, and ambitions, at a time when America was experiencing great political, industrial, and social upheaval.
Author: Carol Garde
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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William and Edward Bethell were living in Virginia about 1750. Both died before 1760. They may have been brothers but this is unknown. Information concerning many of their descendants some of whom favored Quaker beliefs and settled later in Pennsylvania are included in this volume. Later descendants moved to Texas, Oklahoma and elsewhere. Today they live throughout the United States.
Author: Walter N. Vernon
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Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Author: James Leroy Mohon
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Category : Sequatchie River Valley (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Family history of Alexander and Adam Lamb, believed to be the sons of Hugh Lamb who came to America from Scotland c. 1753. Alexander Lamb was born 1782 in Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Carmack 1802 in Tennessee where he died in 1862. They raised nine children. Adam Lamb was born c. 1785 in Pennsylvania. He married Nancy Viney Kelly c. 1793 in Tennessee where he died in 1857. They raised eleven children.
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806302038
Category : Marriage licenses
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Abstracts, wills, marriages, and tax lists, together with a list of Revolutionary War soldiers and biographical data from gravestones.
Author: Thomas Gray Webb
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Category : DeKalb County (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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A record of some of the descendants of John Byars Webb, 1762-1830's, and his wife Mary and of Elisha Webb, 1767-1850's, and his wife Sarah. Didama Webb (1793-1857), daughter of John and Mary, married James Webb (1790-1867), son of Elisha and Sarah. Descendants lived in Tennessee, Virginia, and elsewhere.
